Hong Kong Informer

Carson Yeung 's purchase of the English soccer club Birmingham City was partly paid with funds in bank accounts connected to his money laundering trial, a prosecutor said. Yeung received HK$ 721.3 million ($ 93 million) in deposits from a Macau casino operator, securities firms and "unknown parties" into five bank accounts controlled by him [...]

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ROME (AP) — At 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2011, when early risers would have been sipping espressos and buttering toast, a man dressed in black disembarked at Milan’s Malpensa Airport after a 13-hour trip from Asia aboard a Singapore Airlines flight. Italian court documents show he stayed in the country just 6 hours and [...]

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ROME (AP) — At 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2011, when early risers would have been sipping espressos and buttering toast, a man dressed in black disembarked at Milan’s Malpensa Airport after a 13-hour trip from Asia aboard a Singapore Airlines flight. Italian court documents show he stayed in the country just 6 hours and [...]

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ZURICH (AP) — Soccer is falling under a cloud of suspicion as never before, sullied by a multibillion-dollar web of match-fixing that is corrupting increasingly larger parts of the world’s most popular sport. Internet betting, emboldened criminal gangs and even the economic downturn have created conditions that make soccer — or football, as the sport [...]

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Tony Fernandes, the boss of budget airline AirAsia Bhd., is set to buy a 51% stake in English Premier League club from Formula One legend Bernie Ecclestone. And Manchester United – one of the most popular teams in Asia–is set to list in Singapore in a deal worth some US$ 1 billion. Exchange

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